On the Beat - Episode 228 - A Visit With Randy Black

[tgjameela]

Hi Everyone,

Neil had a visit with a friend of his and they discussed a bit about tuning.

Randy Black has been a friend of mine for many years. He is a piano tuner and technician by trade.

We recently struck up a conversation about tuning, guitars in particular, and I asked him to come by a little later when we could shoot our conversation, thinking some folks in the TG Community might be interested in what he had to say.

We spent about a half hour trading thoughts and comments on tuning.

Enjoy!

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[sbutler]

That was really neat Neil. I enjoyed his view. Another way of looking at something I thought was only one directional.

Thanks, Scott

[RicksPick]

So intresting
Thanks Randy and Neil
I was told when first learning to tune by ear to listen to the pulses but to equalise them
So looking forward to more cos I wasnt counting them

RicksPick

[haoli25]

Great info, Randy. Thanks for sharing. Now I am off to change my strings.

By the way, early frequency measurements were made using the ripples in water. An instrument was placed near a pan of water. After a note was played, the spacing (or interval) between the rings was measured.

Bill

[thereshopeyet]

Randy and Neil thanks for sharing the FOTW discussion.

I currently use an electronic tuner to tune my guitar.
I brought up the subject of tuning in the forums last week because I am
interested to understand how to tune my acoustic guitar by ear should I be without an electronic tuner.

That aside, I think it might discipline and fine tune the ear to recognise sound differences and how then
to adjust them to suit which can only be a good thing.

I am really interested to hear what you are willing to share and hope you explain a practical method I could follow and
practice with an Acoustic guitar.

Hopefully before you may consider moving over to Totally Keyboards, you leave the Totally Guitars Community with
a solid method and understanding to tune our guitars by ear.

Thanks

Dermot



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[dtaylor]

Nice intro to an interesting topic. I'd look forward to some more formal chats on intervals and counting beats.
Thank you.

[willem]

Interesting, I also wondering if tuning two guitars with also two electronic tuners can there be an diffrents?

Willem